I’ll be sharing my thoughts about James Cuno, the incoming president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, on Warren Olney‘s Which Way LA?, broadcast over public radio station KCRW at 7 p.m. LA time (10 p.m. on the East Coast).

My segment is supposed to air at about 7:12 p.m., Western. You’ll be able to listen live here.

I’ll also update this post with the embedded audio, once it’s available online.

The Getty Trust’s vice president for communications, Ron Hartwig, and I actually managed to have a cordial and, I think, interesting conversation, even though I had just criticized Cuno in this post for his “intemperate rhetoric” and his “extremist stance” on cultural-property issues.

You’ll be particularly interested to hear Ron talk about how Cuno’s job interview played out on this hot-button topic (and, later on, you’ll hear my response to that).

Of course, the person I REALLY should have been talking with is Cuno!

UPDATE: Below is the podcast. Our “Getty” segment starts at about 12:09 into the program (after the “Teachers” segment):

CultureGrrl

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